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Luca Finocchiaro - Morphological implications of passive control

“I didn’t invent anything. I just designed an hospital that can be born, live and expand itself

like an open hand”, Le Corbusier

Venice Hospital,1965

Morphological implications of passive control

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Luca Finocchiaro - Morphological implications of passive control

STUDIES, CALCULATIONS AND DRAWINGS

AND ICHARACTERISTICS

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

NHS

SHAPE

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ABBAZIE OF CLUNY

THERAPEUTIC ROLE

XV CENTURY COURTYARDS, GALLERIES AND PORCHES EXTERIOR / INTERIOR

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

CONTROL

OSPEDALE MAGGIORE,MILAN

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COURTYARD AND PAVILLIONS

Durand Desgodets Poyet y Coqueau, Royal Naval hospital

THERAPEUTIC ROLE

EXTERIOR/INTERIOR

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• Lift diffusion• Increased cost of urban fields• Pasteur and Koch discoveries - role of bacteria

FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM

COMPACT TYPOLOGIES THREE ZONES

DELEGATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL TO INSTALLASTIONS

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Luca Finocchiaro - Morphological implications of passive control

UNPREDICTABILITY

COMPLEXITY1950 - MEDICAL SCIENCE ACCELERATION

Font: F. R. Prodi, A. Stocchetti

“The study of functions doesn’t represent anymore a solid base for hospitals architectural design. Functions change so often that architects will not have to aspire to the optimum between form and function. The real requirement is designing buildings that would allow functions to change”

John Weeks

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Thermal energy used for environmental comfort represents more than two thirds of the total consumption. Font: ENEA, 1996

ALMOST 70& OF TOTAL CONS.

THERMAL DEMANDENERGY CONSUMPTION

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Pediatric hospital Gregorio Maranon

Location: Madrid

Architect: Rafael Moneo

ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR

MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS SHAPE COEFFICIENTS

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COURTYARD AND PAVILLION

TYPOLOGIES

COMPACT TYPOLOGIES

FLEXIBLE TYPOLOGIES

• XIX CENT.role of bazcteria,

HVAC, lift

• XV - XVIII CENTtherapeutic role of

natural light and ventilation

• XX CENT.Medical science acceleration

and functional orgnization unpredictibility.

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SLAB AND TOWER

SPINE AND PAVILLIONS

GALLERY

MODULAR PLANT WITH COURTYARDS

VER

TIC

AL

HO

RIZ

ON

TAL

ARTICULATED SLAB

FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM

DETERMINISM ATTEMPT OF FORECASTING CHANGE FORM OF ORGANISM

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ADAPTABLE BUILDING

UNIVERSAL BOX

MAT BUILDING

Isolated structures able to change indipendently

Box of big dimension – any point of the structure is able to host any sort of function

The mail garantees growth and order

ORGANISM SHAPE

SKIN

VERTICAL PARTITIONS

HORIZONTAL PARTITIONS

INTERNAL PARTITIONS

VERTICAL CONNECTIONS

RELATIONS MAIL

FUNCTIONAL BLOCKS

STRUCTURE

SPATIAL CELLS

1THREE STRATEGIES

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INDETERMINISM NOT ANY ATTEMPT

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FORCASTING CHANGE

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MARGIN OF ERROR

INTERSTITIAL SPACES

INDIFFERENT VERSATILE SPACE

AVAILABLE SPACES

COMPLEX FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM

CONTAINER

ZEIDLER

JOHN WEEKS

MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICVERSATIL INTERSTITIAL SPACES INTERNAL TO THE PERIMETER

ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITYFORM/CLIMATE

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

FLEXIBILITY

PHYSICAL EXPRESSIONINTERSTITIAL SPACES

FONDAMENTAL QUALITY – COLLECTING INSIDE THE PERIMETER INTERSTITIAL SPACES, SMALL FRAGMENTS OF AIR AND DAYLIGHT WHOSE CONDITIONS MIGHT BE CONTROLLED AS AN INTERNAL SPACE

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INTERSTITIAL SPACES

STRATEGIESENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL

NO EXTERIOR , IN-BETWEEN PATIOMAT BUILDING

PARKADAPTABLE BUILDING

LOW COMPARTIMENT. / EDICOLAR ARCH.UNIVERSAL BOX INTERSTICE

GAP